In a new interview with ComingSoon Jason Isaacs has talked about the final parts in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows! Spoilers ahead!
“They made the last book into two films, and it was a fantastic experience because everyone who is left alive is back… and even some of the dead people,” he said with a sly smile. “There is one long sequence where everyone who is left standing is there when the forces of good meet the forces of evil.”
“I think over the years that they’ve been adapting these incredibly popular and successful books, they’ve increasingly become more and more confident in their ability to make great cinema experiences out of it and where they need to change the book or the central thrust of the story, they do it now with real aplomb and with Jo Rowling’s blessing,” he continued. “Everybody is very savvy to the notion that this is a much-loved franchise and this will be the end of an eighth film, and it needs to have weight and substance and you need to feel drained by the end of it. It’s a ten-year roller coaster ride, not a two-hour roller coaster ride, and we all know it and we all felt it, and it was in the air while we were shooting it.”
“This franchise goes out in an epic way,” he concluded. “I think the end of the films will be a fantastically cinematic and visual feast and it will more than satisfy the readers of the books, but what you won’t get is the book on screen. You will get something more and different.”
“It’s very sad for me,” he admitted when asked about how he felt about the movies coming to an end. “I’m a particularly sentimental fool anyway so I was already nostalgic for the history of Harry Potter while I was still making it, and I knew the end was coming. I was always cognizant of the fact I was going to have to pack up my furry friend of a wig and stick it in a box and say goodbye to the cane and any magic powers. All the joy was tinged with sadness for me.”
The Children’s High Level Group, a charity started by JK Rowling and Baroness Emma Nicholson, has unveiled their new site and re-brand, which is now known as Lumos! Visit their official site by going to lumos.org.uk!
The Children’s High Level Group today unveils its new name and a new brand with a rallying call to put an end to the systematic institutionalisation of disadvantaged children across Central and Eastern Europe.
The charity today re-launches as Lumos – named after the spell in J K Rowling’s global sensation Harry Potter. In the books, Lumos causes a small beam of light to emit from the spell-caster’s wand.
With the change of name to Lumos comes a shift in focus: Lumos will no longer work in Romania – this work will be continued by the Asociatia Children’s High Level Group, whose Chair is Baroness Emma Nicholson. Lumos, chaired by J K Rowling, will continue its work in the Czech Republic and the Republic of Moldova, as well as expanding into other countries.
J K Rowling says, “Twenty years ago, as Communist regimes across Europe toppled, harrowing images of Europe’s hidden children began to emerge. Thousands upon thousands of children were living in vast, depressing institutions – malnourished and often maltreated, with little access to the outside world. Slowly governments have begun to transform care systems. Real and lasting change takes time, but today we are putting down a marker and calling for significantly more progress in the next twenty years to ensure that eventually no children are living in, or at risk of entering, such institutions.”
MTV is reporting about a new rumor, that rumor being that /Film has deduced that Daniel Radcliffe will be staring in The Lucky One, adapted from the novel by Nicholas Sparks.
The Lucky One tells of US Marine Logan Thibault who finds a snapshot of a young woman when on duty in Iraq and feels that it brings him a tidal wave of good luck. After his tour is done and he returns to America, he sets off on a journey to track down the woman in his photograph. She’s Elizabeth, a young mother who is now divorced, and I suppose it’s inevitable she’ll begin an affair with Thibault at some point, seeing as who wrote the story and all.
I’m assuming Radcliffe and Rabe will have the lead roles. Their names come from tweets by Christine Vachon, the producer of Infamous as well as pretty much every Todd Haynes movie and both of Tom Kalin’s pictures.
Heading to Doug McGrath’s script reading, starring Daniel Radcliffe–
Daniel Radcliffe and Lily Rabe were AMAZING together!
Now, while she doesn’t mention which movie this is, the actors fit the roles, and we already knew McGrath was adapting this particular Sparks book. Furthermore, a recent interview with Sparks at Collider saw the author say “I think they start filming The Lucky One in May”. I’m sure we have a match.
UPDATE: MTV has posted up exclusive news that this is untrue:
Our insider said the reading was for another film being produced that doesn’t even have financing lined up yet.
“It’s for another film called ‘Nothing Else Like It On Earth’,” our source said. “It’s a really beautiful story.”
Apparently none of the actors have been confirmed yet due to film being in an early state of production. Daniel and Lily were just doing the readings, and no casting decisions have been made.
Jason Isaacs, Lucius Malfoy, was interviewed by CNN and he discussed the Harry Potter series. Thanks to SS we have a small summary of what was said, and you can watch the interview below:
Jason admitted that he tried out for the Gilderoy Lockhart role in Chamber of Secrets, as well as Lucius (though is more grateful for getting the latter role). He said the best bits are off-camera, working with great actors like Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Richard Harris, Gary Oldman, and Bill Nighy, to name a few.
He said that work on the Harry Potter films is relatively easy for him, and that the biggest challenge is in keeping the wig up and act.
Jason joked that he was bitter and jealous that he never got a scene in Half-Blood Prince, but overall voiced his overall joy at being a part of the series.
If Jason were Lucius Malfoy for a day, he said he’d go around killing Muggles. If Jason were to meet Lucius, he might just shave off the long blond locks.
